Live Music

The Edinburgh International Festival has raked in £4.2 million in income from ticket sales for the first time…
There was a total of 3,269 shows at the 2016 Edinburgh Festival Fringe which ends today. With that many shows…
The Gewandhausorchester of Leipzig is one of the most established orchestras in Germany (it was the first…
For half an hour Sarah Connolly CBE entranced us as she sung six of Alma Mahler's lieder, German romantic…
Michael Harris has been Organist and Master of the Music of St Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh since 1996 whilst…
With the renovation of their hall well under way, The Friends of St Cecilia’s Hall brought a harpsichord to…
Without a doubt the star of the concert was violin soloist, Pekka Kuusisto. I have never seen a soloist so…
It was while the highly respected Walter Hussey was Dean of Chichester Cathedral that he and John Birch, the…
We are shown into a large square room where we join other guests already seated on comfortable sofas and…
‘Made in Hong Kong, assembled in Fife’ is how musician Andy Chung describes his background. James Connolly,…
‘Every light casts a shadow; every fire ends in dust’. So reads the programme note to Anything That Gives Off…
Every year the Edinburgh Fringe is full of improvisation.
It was a joy to watch Daniil Trifonov at the piano again. A few years ago his lurching towards the keyboard…
Every morning during the Edinburgh International Festival the Queen’s Hall is the focal point for chamber…
Dubbed as Shakespeare meets American serial drama Empire, TWIST theatre company transport 1600s Kings and…
Was there ever a more unlikely star than Alan Cumming? The Dundee lad became the toast of Broadway, a Bond…
Anne-Isabel Meyer, the cellist, was lucky enough to come into possession a rare edition from 1871 of Schumann…
Matthew Dames thrilled his audience at St Vincent's last night in his hour-long concert of twelve carefully…
We were left in no doubt that the eight guys around the twenty age mark were thoroughly enjoying themselves…
What does a pianist do when he loses the use of his right arm, be it from wartime or illness?